[ExI] Oxford scientists edge toward quantum PC with 10b qubits.

[Kelly Anderson]

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Richard Loosemore <rpwl at lightlink.com> wrote:
> Kelly Anderson wrote:
> I guess one of the reasons I am personally so frustrated by these projects
> is that I am trying to get enough funding to make what I consider to be real
> progress in the field, but doing that is almost impossible.  Meanwhile, if I
> had had the resources of the Watson project a decade ago, we might be
> talking with real (and safe) AGI systems right now.

I doubt it, only in the sense that we don't have anything with near
the raw computational power necessary yet. Unless you have really
compelling evidence that you can get human-like results without
human-like processing power, this seems like a somewhat empty claim.

-Kelly